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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what feeling does a dying person experience?
(a) Relief that pain will end.
(b) Sorrow to leave one's partner.
(c) Fear of destruction.
(d) Joy to be going to Heaven.

2. How does the author close the second chapter?
(a) With surrender to the grief.
(b) With prayer.
(c) With eager hope.
(d) Without optimism.

3. The day after the author's rant in Chapter Two, what does he ask himself about God?
(a) If he has found acceptance that H. is gone.
(b) If God can return H. to life.
(c) Whether or not God exists.
(d) If it's rational to believe in a bad God.

4. In Chapter Two, what does the author say is one more name for death?
(a) Religion.
(b) Grief.
(c) Time.
(d) Cancer.

5. In the first chapter, who does the author say had died several years ago?
(a) The author's friend.
(b) The author's brother.
(c) One of the author's sons.
(d) The author's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling characterizes the second section?

2. What is H.'s real name?

3. To what does the author compare clinging to the memory of one who has died?

4. What does the author conclude it is foolish to expect from the dead?

5. How long were the author and H. married?

(see the answer key)

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